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Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Go To on the Trap of Being "Good"

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

You may be familiar with this woman: she wakes up before anyone else, eats standing up, clears the dishes first—and if you told her she was good, she'd believe you, because all of that not resting, not asking, not taking up room, is what goodness looks like—doesn't it? Kelly digs into research showing that the behavior we reward in women—being accommodating, putting others first, never stopping—is actually a clinical risk factor for depression. This episode takes a close look at why many of us are so busy being good that we forget to be whole and the quiet cost of following rules we never actually agreed to. Check out Elise Loehnen's book On Our Best Behavior: The Price Women Pay to Be Good https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673282/on-our-best-behavior-by-elise-loehnen/ Elise's workbook, co-written with Courtney Smith is Choosing Wholeness Over Goodness: A Process for Reclaiming Your Full Self https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/771811/choosing-wholeness-over-goodness-by-elise-loehnen-and-courtney-smith/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody.

0:09.6

This short segment is called a go-to.

0:13.6

It refers back to this crazy thing we used to do at the end of our sorority meetings in college.

0:17.7

If you can believe that, it was called for the good of the order.

0:20.1

And it was a way to share something that had

0:22.3

emerged over the course of the week, which really was a bit of learning or thinking or feeling that was to everyone's benefit to share.

0:32.8

And so that's all we'll do here. Every Friday, we release a go--to and we encourage you to share it with friends around

0:39.1

the country we know that people use it as a way to stay in touch with their best friends across the

0:44.7

country and of course far-flung family members wherever they might be and as for your local

0:51.5

nearest and dearest consider it fodder for discussion over the course of the weekend.

0:56.3

This is Kelly Corrigan Wonders in our weekly segment called GoTo.

1:02.0

This week's go-to is about the trap of being good.

1:08.8

So I want to describe a woman to you,

1:11.1

let's see if you recognize her.

1:12.7

She wakes up before anyone else in the house.

1:16.0

She's not necessarily a morning person,

1:17.6

but there are things that need to be done

1:19.2

before anyone else's day can start.

1:21.8

She eats standing up.

1:23.5

She's the last person to sit at dinner

1:25.1

and the first to get up and clear the dishes.

1:28.7

She doesn't ask for much. She doesn't take up a lot of room. And if you told her she was good,

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